Improvement in printers  rules



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CHIC, AssIeNoR To CINCINNATI TYPE-FOUNDRY, `OFl SAME PLACE.

Leners Patent-N0. 98,799, dazed January 11, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN rRINTER's' RULES. A

The Schedule referred 'co in these Letters Patent and making partrorf the same.

I, yCONRAD REUTR, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county,

Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Printers Rules, of which the following is a specification. l

Nature andy Objects of the Invention. f

General Description, with Reference to' the Drawings. Figure l is a perspective-view of an octagonal hor- .der formed on my plan;

Figure 2 shows a `portion of the members of the same detached; Y

Figure 3 is a perspective view of a diamond or rhombie border;

` Figure 4 shows a portion of the same,with one mem- Fi'gure 5 showsa set of corner-pieces; .and i Figure 6, a 'series of intersecting rules, applicable Vfor the printing of calendars and other tables.

- Aarestrips of brass, or other suitablematerial, A i

such as is employed inl the composition of printersrules.

These strips have notches, B, which, entering'one of the edges, extend vertically from the same, partly across the Width ofthe strip.

These notches pass from side to side of the stuff, at any angle that may suit the particular form of figure, as, for example, triangular, square, rhombic,` hexagonal, or other. v

TheV Working-edges (faces) ofthe strips may have a groove, as in figs. l and 2, or other 'ornamentaldetail, or may-be plain, as in figs. 3 and 4, and they may be straight, as in the present illustration, or of any curved or other form that taste or fancy may dictate.

I claim, as my invention, joining printers rules, by notching them on to one another, in the manner set forth.

In testimony of which invention, I hereunto set my hand. i

CONRAD Raumes Witnesses GEO. H.KNI'GHT, VJAMES; H. LAYMAN. 

